George Maney

George Maney (24 August 1826-9 February 1901) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
George Maney was born in Franklin, Tennessee in 1826, and he graduated from the University of Nashville in 1845 at the age of 19 before serving as a US Army lieutenant during the Mexican-American War. He became a lawyer in 1850 and served in the State House as a Whig. During the American Civil War, he became colonel of the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, becoming an officer in the Army of Tennessee and commanding a brigade at the Battle of Perryville, the Battle of Stones River, and the Battle of Chickamauga before severely injuring his arm during the Chattanooga Campaign. In 1864, he commanded a division in William J. Hardee's corps during the Atlanta Campaign, and he surrendered to Union general William T. Sherman in North Carolina in 1865. After the war, he became President of the Tennessee and Pacific Railroad in 1868, and he became a Republican state senator and helped restore the government to former Confederates once their civil rights were restored. He worked to improve relations between the former enemies during Reconstruction, and he served as ambassador to Colombia from 1881 to 1882, to Bolivia from 1882 to 1883 and to Uruguay and Paraguay from 1890 to 1894. He died in Washington DC in 1901.